top extensions for chrome
1. Productivity
- Trello: Manage tasks and projects, stay organized, and collaborate with team members directly from Chrome.
- Notion Web Clipper: Clip articles, images, and pages into Notion to create an organized workspace.
- Grammarly: Checks your spelling, grammar, and punctuation as you type.
- OneTab: Consolidates all open tabs into one list to save memory and organize your workspace.
- Forest: Helps manage focus by “growing a tree” as you avoid distractions and focus on a task.
2. Ad Blockers
- uBlock Origin: A lightweight, customizable ad blocker that’s effective and doesn’t slow down your browsing.
- Adblock Plus: A popular ad-blocking extension that reduces ads, pop-ups, and tracking.
3. Privacy & Security
- LastPass: A password manager that saves and autofills passwords securely.
- HTTPS Everywhere: Automatically switches websites to secure HTTPS connections for safer browsing.
- DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials: Blocks trackers, ensures encrypted connections, and provides a privacy score for each website.
4. Web Development & Design
- ColorZilla: A color picker tool for web designers to extract colors from websites.
- WhatFont: Easily identifies fonts used on a webpage by hovering over them.
- Lighthouse: Google’s open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages (great for SEO and performance).
5. Research & Reading
- Pocket: Save articles and videos to view later, even offline.
- Mercury Reader: Strips away ads and other distractions, leaving only the text and images in a clean layout.
- Kami: A PDF and document annotation tool for online reading and note-taking.
6. Shopping & Deals
- Honey: Automatically finds and applies coupon codes for online shopping.
- Rakuten: Provides cashback on various purchases and shows available deals as you shop.
7. Video and Screen Recording
- Loom: Record and share video messages of your screen, voice, and face to communicate clearly.
- Screencastify: A screen-recording extension that lets you record, edit, and share videos directly.
8. Bookmarking & Tab Management
- Tab Wrangler: Automatically closes unused tabs to help with memory usage.
- Session Buddy: Saves all open tabs to be reloaded later, ideal for managing sessions and avoiding tab clutter.
Each of these can make a big difference in streamlining your browsing experience or boosting productivity